Review for Language Quiz #1

Review for Language Quiz #1

September 28, 2020

Vocabulary Words

 Incessant, Placidity, Primeval, Haunt, Mar, Desolate, Partitions, Undulate, Tentative

Open Ended

In your notebook, sketch a place that instills a sense of placidity in you.

For me, that place is Moraine Hills State Park, in McHenry, Illinois. Whenever I spend a day at home in Johnsburg with my parents, my dad and I try to get out here and take our dogs for a walk on the 2-mile loop. I'll forever cherish that time spent together, walking and talking.

Open Ended

How can you apply the phrase "carpe diem" to your life TODAY? What small things can you actually do to put that philosophy into practice?

Open Ended

Think of a thing/object that undulates incessantly. Sketch it in your notebook.

Open Ended

Put your knowledge of geography to work here! Name a location in the continental U.S. that comes to mind when you think of the word desolate.

The Great Basin includes most of Nevada, half of Utah, sections of Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and California.

Open Ended

List a few emotions that could be considered PRIMEVAL.

Open Ended

What are some tentative plans you have right now?

Open Ended

What are the TWO main applications of the word PARTITION (physical and metaphorical)?

Open Ended

Think back to your childhood, let's say when you were about 5 years old, perhaps just starting kindergarten. What was your favorite haunt?

Grammar

Clauses: Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses

Phrases: Prepositional, Participial, Gerund, Appositive

Sentence Types: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex

Appositive Phrases

• An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words.

• An appositive phrase can appear at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence. Each location can achieve a different stylistic effect.

Multiple Select

Check all of the sentences that include an appositive phrase.

• A hot-tempered baseball player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a bat.

• Robbie, a hot-tempered baseball player, charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a bat.

• Upset by the bad call, the crowd cheered Robbie, a hot-tempered baseball player who charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a bat.

Open Ended

What two things does a clause need to be considered "independent"?

Open Ended

Now write the shortest sentence you can that includes those two things.

Multiple Select

Check all the boxes next to subordinating conjunctions.

• whether, if, unless, because

• into, on, around

• as soon as, so that, which

• although, provided that, since

Open Ended

Now use one of those subordinating conjunctions to write a compound sentence (one that includes both an independent and dependent clause).

Jerry Seinfeld's bit about the confusing use of prepositions in the U.S., specifically New York City

"We get ON the train, You don’t get IN, you get ON! Even though there’s nobody ON it. You never see anybody ON TOP OF the train. Why do we get ON the train? Eh? …? So you can get OFF it! Get OFF the train, this is our stop. We are going to get IN the cab. We don’t get ON the cab. You are ON the train, but you don’t get ON the cab, no, no. You get IN the cab. Why do you get IN the cab? …? So you can get OUT! (Why are you still in the cab Jerry? Get out of the cab!) What about Uber? What do you do with Uber? Do you get IN it? no. ON it? no. OFF it? no. You take it!! You take Uber!"

Multiple Choice

The trash can sat in the corner, brimming with garbage.

Write this sentence in your notebook. Underline "brimming with garbage". Is this a PARTICIPIAL phrase or a GERUND phrase? How do you know?

• PARTICIPIAL phrase

• GERUND phrase

Multiple Choice

Turning the light on is a necessity.

Is "turning the light on" a PARTICIPIAL PHRASE or a GERUND PHRASE? How do you know? What is it functioning as in the sentence? A noun or an adjective?

• Participial Phrase

• Gerund Phrase

Multiple Choice

One more example.

Turning the light on, Haley walks into the room.

• Participial Phrase

• Gerund Phrase